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  • Bail denied for Lodi imam

    08/10/2005 10:05:31 AM PDT · by Sweetjustusnow · 241+ views
    The Recorder ^ | Aug 10, 2005 | NEIL GONZALES
    SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that Lodi Islamic leader Shabbir Ahmed was part of a long-term effort to build a Lodi Muslim school to train future jihadists who could commit acts of terrorism in the United States. FBI Special Agent Gary Schaaf testified that Ahmed was involved in a "long-term plan" to set up an Islamic school in Lodi whose students would be "ready to commit acts of violence." Schaaf said that school -- the proposed Farooqia Center in southwest Lodi -- would be patterned after the Islamic university in Pakistan called Jamia Farooqia, which was listed by...